cro@cs.arizona.edu (Charles R. Oldham) (01/19/90)
Good Afternoon,
I have a two-fold question for all of the netters here
I have an IBM PC-XT clone with a late version of the DTK/ERSO bios,
640K, 20Mb Seagate HD with a generic controller, and a special floppy
controller board that supports all 4 of the floppy disk formats (360K, 1.2M,
720K 3.5", and 1.44M 3.5"). I'm running MS-Dos 3.20. I bought a 1.4M 3.5"
disk drive yesterday and installed it without incident. However, as expected,
I can't read or write in 1.44Mb format. 720K format is fine, using DRIVPARM.
1. Is there a driver program for MS-Dos 3.2x that will allow me to
use the 1.4M format? I need one for 3.2x because for some strange
reason, I cannot format my Seagate for MS-Dos 3.3. My system will
not boot from the hard drive.
2. Can somebody tell me why my system won't boot 3.3? I can boot from
a floppy, but not the hard drive. Is there a fix for this bizarre
behavior?
Please E-mail to me, because of the large volume of this newsgroup, I
don't have time to read it all every day. I will summarize to the net if there
is general interest.
Thanks!
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